Ethics Questions

"in crucial cases, however, repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power fully to articulate it."

jane english believes that if a fetus is a person, abortion is still justifiable in many cases, and if a fetus is not a person, then

margaret olivia little speaks of abortion in terms of a woman

"but what is technically possible is not for that very reason morally admissible."

alvin goldman challenges the assumption that patients prioritize

"the loss of one's life deprives one of all the experiences, activities, projects, and enjoyments that would otherwise have constituted one's future."

the ability to make decisions about medical treatment relates directly to one's

to think of abortion in terms of rights or promotng a certain state of affairs is, according to rosalind hursthouse

"most possible harms to a cloned child are less serious than the genetic harms with which parents can now permit their offspring to be conceived or born."

overriding a person's decision or desire for his own good is

john stuart mill answers the piggy pleasures objection by making a distinction between

"the criterion for humanity, thus, was simple and all-embracing: if you are conceived by human parents, you are human."

"consequently, while the moment of birth does not mark any sharp discontinuity in the degree to which an infant possesses the right to life, it does mark the end of its mother's right to determine its fate."

"form many women who contemplate abortion, the desire to end pregnancy is not, or not centrally, a desire to avoid the nine months of pregnancy; it is to avoid what lies on the far side of those months - namely, motherhood."

"if we were to reject medical advances on the ground that they are 'unnatural' we would be rejecting modern medicine as a whole, for the very real purpose of the medical enterprise is to resist the ravages of nature which would otherwise shorten our lives and make them much less pleasant."

"the hand that steadied us as we learned to ride our first bicycle did not provide propositional knowledge, but it guided and supported us all the same, and we finished up 'knowing how.'"

"I am not, in this article, trying to solve the problem of abortion; I am illustrating how virtue theory directs one to think about it."

susan wolf focuses on two moral theories in her argument, kantian moral theory and

"for a doctor seems not even to study health in this way, but the health of man, or perhaps the health of a particular an; for it is individual that he is healing."

"you wake up in the morning and find yourself back to bak in bed with an unconscious violinist."